January 25, 2017On January 18, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration...
January 24, 2017Lawyers in a landmark stop-and-frisk lawsuit will get more than $11 million from the city for legal fees and costs, the Daily News has learned. David Floyd claimed in a 2008 lawsuit that the NYPD’s...
January 26, 2017The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC in association with The Public Theater presents Public Forum: Letters From Detention tonight, January 26 at 7PM. This month, the Supreme Court heard...
Today Donald Trump is flying to Philadelphia, where congressional Republicans are on retreat. He’s going in an effort to win more support for his political agenda. Over the past five days, he has...
Updated: January 26, 2017
January 27, 2017Last night, CCR and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC , in association with The Public Theater's Public Forum , hosted an evening of storytelling and conversation about CCR’s Supreme...
After Trump's executive orders making national policy out of anti-Muslim hate, our Supreme Court case Ziglar v. Abbasi (changed from Turkmen v. Ashcroft in November 2016) could not be more timely or...
Updated: January 26, 2017
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin In 1979, author James Baldwin wrote a 30-page letter outlining a biography of slain civil...
Updated: February 1, 2017
February 2, 2017Today marks the five-year anniversary since NYPD officer Richard Haste killed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham in his Bronx home. The five-day departmental trial of Officer Haste wrapped up last week, and...
Join Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah, for a rally and vigil to demand the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate the NYPD killing of her son Mohamed Bah. CCR recently signed on to a letter along...
Updated: February 7, 2017
February 14, 2017 The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) urges New York state legislators to support proposed legislation ( A.5617 ). This bill is an important step to codify and strengthen the...
Updated: February 16, 2017
Pages
